Pictures: Two Mile Branch cleanup 2022-04-16

Eighteen people accepted Katherine Ball’s invitation to clean up Two Mile Branch behind Stone Castle.

Trash found in this Georgia Rivers Alive WWALS Earth Day cleanup included a Valdosta rezoning sign from 2007, a street-side trash bin, and many tires, as well as the usual bottles and cans.

Floridians, this is trash that would otherwise go down Two Mile Branch and Sugar Creek to the Withlacoochee River into Florida.

Some VSU students videoed the proceedings for a documentary. Nic Hathaway says he’s organizing Lowndes High students to help with trash.

Creek, trash, banners

Michael’s backhoe was necessary to pull some of that stuff out. The trash bin took a halfdozen to heave-ho.

Here’s a WWALS video playlist:

Two Mile Branch cleanup @ Stone Castle 2022-04-16
A Georgia Rivers Alive and WWALS Earth Day Cleanup
Video by John S. Quarterman for WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS).

Upstream

Beatriz and Tom Potter in Two Mile Branch, 09:18:51, 30.8621052, -83.2970390

Katherine Ball explains it all, 09:18:55, 30.8621052, -83.2970390

Stone Castle, 09:20:12, 30.8620247, -83.2971645

Let’s get some trash, 09:20:15, 30.8620247, -83.2971645

Rezoning sign

VA-2007-01, Corner of Roosevelt & Patterson, 09:28:57, 30.8620360, -83.2967540

With Tom Potter’s bucket of trash, 09:29:00, 30.8620360, -83.2967540

Springs

Nice little creek, partly spring-fed, 09:30:30, 30.8620530, -83.2967550

Spring run on right (north) bank, 09:40:46, 30.8623997, -83.2973431

Spring run and Two Mile Branch, 09:40:49, 30.8623997, -83.2973431

Downstream debris

Sonia Velez Hoy near bag of something with Michael’s chain and rope, 09:43:15, 30.8620150, -83.2977600

Elizabeth Brunner and a logjam, 09:44:03, 30.8620529, -83.2978799

Valdosta sewer pipe, 09:47:53, 30.8621700, -83.2982260

Trail on right bank

Downed post with warning sign, 09:50:26, 30.8622621, -83.2982393

Buried small tire, 09:51:06, 30.8622630, -83.2982530

Something else buried, 09:51:21, 30.8622630, -83.2982530

Buried trash bin

Russell McBride and Emily Arnold digging, 09:51:28, 30.8622630, -83.2982530

Tom Potter with a trash can top, 09:51:33, 30.8622634, -83.2982531

Progress digging, 09:52:10, 30.8622478, -83.2982467

More digging, 09:52:15, 30.8622478, -83.2982467

Georgina Arnold in the creek, 09:53:13, 30.8623919, -83.2985465

Tire from left bank

Movie: Georgina Arnold retrieving a tire, 30.8623919, -83.2985465

Movie: Georgina’s tire and bag of trash, 30.8623919, -83.2985465

Georgina’s tire and Will McCoy from VSU, 10:10:47, 30.8622100, -83.2981929

Back at the trash bin

Eliza and Bobby McKenzie join the digging, 10:11:30, 30.8622000, -83.2981950

Movie: Michael observes from the pipe, 30.8622000, -83.2981950

Movie: Michael, Georgina, and Nic Hathaway join the dig, 30.8622800, -83.2980380

Movie: Let’s lift it up, 30.8622800, -83.2980380

Movie: Emily on the pile of sand, 30.8622800, -83.2980380

The small tire dig

Movie: Will videos Emily digging the small tire, 30.8622800, -83.2980380

Emily gets under the tire, 10:23:21, 30.8622800, -83.2980380

Emily with last year’s big cleanup shirt, 10:23:29, 30.8622800, -83.2980380

The tire’s coming up, but…, 10:23:48, 30.8622980, -83.2980910

It’s attached to an entire toy, 10:24:48, 30.8623148, -83.2981100

Beatriz says she has to go, 10:24:58, 30.8623148, -83.2981100

Reburied for now, 10:28:53, 30.8623490, -83.2982590

What is going on

Katherine comes to see, 10:31:40, 30.8623558, -83.2983380

Movie: Katherine explains why she invited us to clean up, 30.8623558, -83.2983380

Banners

Banners with Rivers Alive t-shirts

Let’s all say Valdosta should clean up its trash mess, 10:48:03, 30.8618621, -83.2974880

The trash bin, tires, bucket, trash bags; Photo: Tom Potter, 10:26:09

Fin

Scotti and Sara Jay arrive and stay to clean up more, 11:00:34, 30.8616957, -83.2969184

-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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